The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-04
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.

news Reporters.
Georgia Chapter r. A. NJ, will hold a
regular convocation tonight.
The work of grading Bay street west of
| Wadley street cas- been commenced.
Hannah Townsend (colored) was exam
ined yesterday by commission at the jail
and was pronounced insane
The Equitable Loan and Building Assooi-
alton will hold its eighth monthly meeting
at the Secretary's Office, No. rs Bryan
street, tonight.
The Savannah Volunteer Guards will have
their target practice at Scheutzen Park this
| afternoon. Cars will leave Broughton and
Bull streets at 3 o'clock.
Capt. P. Doyle and the crew of the
burned steamship Ben Hope were passengers
on the steamship Chattahoochee which
sailed for New York yesterday.
Sheriff B. F. Ballew, of Laurens county,
S. G., came to Savannah yesterday for
| Simon Mann, Jr., who is wanted in South
Carolina for perjury. Mann was delivered
over to Sheriff Ballew and was taken off to
his old home last night.
The Sealnens Bethel, advertised to be sold
at auction yesterday, was withdrawn The
minimum price fixed upon the property is
understood to have been a trifle less than
5000. A number of parties are after the
bethel, and it is understood that it will be
disposed of at private sale
Andrew Patterson (colored) was sentenced
by Mayor Lester yesterday to pay 500 fine
or serve thirty days for disorderly conduct
and gambling in house on Olive street
Robert Waldburg (colored) was sentenced
to IS or ten days for drawing knife on
William Ponder (colored). Three negroes
were fined So each for gambling in a house
on West Boundary.
The cutting and repairing of the asphalt
paving at the intersection of Bull and
Broughton streets has demonstrated the
fact that the pavement is not only sub
stantial piece of work and almost as hard as
stone, but that it can be taken up and relaid
without injury, and better job made than
is usually done in similar work on other
kinds of pavements.
At the Republican Blues prize drill held
at Concordia Park on Monday, Corpl.
George Gregor won the company medal
Corpl. Hanlon also won a prize Sergt.
Spann, who has held the medal for several
years, dropped ont just before Corpl. Han
lon Private Carter was the fourth left
standing. Corps. Oregon and Hanlon are
recent appointees of Capt Dixon.
Mr.. William Hunter, Chairman of the
Trustees of the Chatham Academy, deserves
the thanks of his fellow citizens for the i'm
provements which have been made in the
old Pavilion Hotel, which is now part of
the school building. As soon as the lease on
the property at the corner of Bull and Hull
streets expires it is the purpose of the
trustees to remove the brick walls there and
replace them with an iron fence. The block
will then be an ornament to the city.
The horses attached to two drays and
wagon belonging to Mr.. Theodore Steffins,
ran off on West Broad street yesterday
morning. They were standing at the corner
of Perry street when first frightened, and
few blocks the wagon collided with a wagon
in which Mr.. Henry Bleyert was riding
His wagon was wrecked and he was thrown
out, sustaining painful injuries The runa-
ways Were stopped about Congress street
Both drays and the wagon were badly dam
aged.